Captured ship: Arms of Campveere otherwise Arms of Treveere otherwise Wapen van Veere...

Captured ship: Arms of Campveere otherwise Arms of Treveere otherwise Wapen van Veere (master Abraham Huibrechtsen or Hubertson, prize master Roger Severne or Seaverne).

Capture history: a Dutch East India Company (Zeeland division) ship ([fluit, 627 tons]), bound from Batavia via the Cape of Good Hope to [Wielingen], laden with silk, calicoes, carpets, 'Japan gowns' [kimonos?, etc], copper, pepper, nutmeg, ginger, musk, tamarind, arrack, ambergris, sweetmeats, camphor oil and other goods; taken in fight on 26-28 May/5-7 June 1673 about 10 leagues off St Helena after a 4-hour engagement by the hired ship HMS William and Thomas (Thomas Pile or Pyle commanding), in the squadron of Richard Munden, and brought first into Baltimore, Ireland, on 14 August 1673, then into Kinsale on 20 August 1673, and then into London on about 20-24 September 1673.

The prize's hatches were nailed shut immediately after the action, but Munden and Pyle came aboard on 9 June, at Ascension Island, and had them secured further with seals. The Dutch crew were alleged to have already broken open packs of silk and many to have been wearing 'Japan gowns' and drunk on arrack when the ship was taken.

The ship was one of three Dutch East India Company ships taken at St Helena: the others were Elephant, otherwise Olifant, and Europe, otherwise Franse Europa (VOC Hoorn division).

Court Papers numbered CP 1-:-

• [CP 1]: eight depositions by commission, in a book (paginated 35-135), on the charges against Captain Pyle and Lieutenant Severne of breaking bulk (embezzlement), 4 July 1674.

[See also Huygens Instituut, Dutch East India Company resources/Dutch Asiatic Shipping, voyage 5647.3. The ship left the Cape for home on 1/11 May 1673.]